The answer is none. Maybe the big guys can, but most companies cannot. So at a time when we have almost 10 percent unemployment, people are desperately looking for work, here we have a White House policy that puts at risk 150,000…

I think we probably produce about 30 percent. Much of the specialty oil is for jet fuel and a number of our fuels.

Well, this moratorium's impact on our economy is greater than most imagined. It is not just along the Gulf Coast. But imagine, if you will, you have at this point both the 33 deepwater rigs that are now idle, leaving America, along with…

The cost of the drilling moratorium in human lives and jobs, the impact on people's lives and families, is devastating. We face other immediate threats to America's energy future within the next several weeks: The Blowout Prevention Act…

Well, thank you. And in conclusion, let me just say, these are not Republican workers. These aren't Democrat workers, these aren't Libertarian workers, these aren't tea party workers. They're just American workers. These are their jobs…

Well, if the gentleman would yield, can we talk a little more about how the loss of energy in America from this moratorium drives up fuel prices, makes us more dependent? Because I don't think most people realize, as you said, the Gulf of…

I would like to yield to the gentleman from Louisiana who has been a leader on this effort both in trying to compel the Federal Government's response to local and State communities and to keep and protect their beaches and marshes but also…

Madam Speaker, the spill in the gulf coast has produced an environmental tragedy, and obviously losing the lives of 11 American workers has been devastating for the families. Our prayers are with them. The gulf coast right now, the…

I will, though, take comfort in telling our workers and small businesses in the Gulf Coast who will lose their jobs, are losing their jobs and losing their businesses due to the drilling moratorium, that they are, quote, 'a small price to…

And now with the drilling, trying to reinstate a drilling moratorium, they are intent on turning an environmental catastrophe into an economic catastrophe.

I think we are going to see some real impacts from that going forward in the future months.